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changed integer promotion rules; breaks bootstrapping and lots of code

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@ -87,7 +87,11 @@ Changes affecting backwards compatibility
- Deprecated the ``ssl`` module.
- Deprecated ``nimrod pretty`` as it never worked good enough and has some
inherent problems.
- The integer promotion rules changed.
- The integer promotion rules changed; the compiler is now less picky in some
situations and more picky in other situations: In particular implicit
conversions from ``int`` to ``int32`` are now forbidden.
- ``system.byte`` is now an alias for ``uint8``; it used to be an alias
to ``int8``.
Compiler Additions
@ -123,6 +127,7 @@ Language Additions
- The apostrophe in type suffixes for numerical literal is now optional.
- Unsigned integer types have been added.
- The integer promotion rules changed.
- Nimrod now tracks proper intervals for ``range`` over some built-in operators.
2012-02-09 Version 0.8.14 released